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Μία χελιδὼν ἔαρ οὐ ποιεῖ → One swallow does not a summer make

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1098a18

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

asphaltĭon: ii, n., = ἀσφάλτιον,
I a kind of clover with long leaves, and of the odor of asphaltum; among the Gr. μινύανθες, prob. the common bituminous clover: Psoralea bituminosa, Linn.; Plin. 21, 9, 30, § 54 (in Col. 6, 17, 2, written as Greek).